Britten: Purcell Realizations [Graham Johnson]

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Purcell Realizations

CD1

The Knotting Song

Seven Songs: Fairest Isle

Seven Songs: If music be the food of love

Seven Songs: Turn then thine eyes

Seven Songs: Music for a while

Seven Songs: Pious Celinda

Seven Songs: I'll sail upon the Dog-star

Seven Songs: On the brow of Richmond Hill

Six Songs: Madd Bess

Six Songs: If music be the food of love

Six Songs: There's not a swain of the plain

Six Songs: Not all my torments

Six Songs: Man is for the Woman made

Six Songs: Sweeter than roses

O Solitude

Five Songs: I attempt from Love's sickness to fly

Five Songs: I take no pleasure

Five Songs: Hark the ech'ing air

Five Songs: Take not a woman's anger ill

Five Songs: How blest are Shepherds

Celemene

Six Duets: Sound the Trumpet

Six Duets: I spy Celia

Six Duets: Lost is my quiet

Six Duets: What can we poor females do

Six Duets: No, resistance is but vain

Six Duets: Shepherd, leave decoying

CD2

The Queen's Epicedium

The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation

Saul and the Witch at Endor

Three Divine Hymns: Lord, what is man?

Three Divine Hymns: We sing to him

Three Divine Hymns: Evening Hymn

Job's Curse

Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia: A Morning Hymn

Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia: Alleluia

Two Divine Hymns and Alleluia: In the black dismal dungeon of despair

Dulcibella

When Myra sings

Let the dreadful engines of eternal will

Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton (soprano)

Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano)

James Bowman (countertenor)

John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)

Richard Jackson, Simon Keenlyside (baritone)

Graham Johnson (piano)

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